This Prez poll is a battle of ideologies, says Meira Kumar

AAP backs opposition presidential candidate Meira Kumar

Kenny Thornton
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15 July, 2017, 16:09

Earlier on June 28, Opposition presidential candidate Meira Kumar filed her nomination in the presence of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh and a number of opposition leaders.

A Dalit versus Dalit electoral fight for the post of President will only take us backwards. All political parties should have come together and put up a consensus candidate.

Later, at a press conference, Kumar termed the July 17 presidential election as a "fight to uphold the secular fabric of the country" and urged the MPs and MLAs to listen to their conscience and keep the future of the country in mind while exercising their franchise.

Sources from the party were already voicing the AAP's support for Ms. Kumar because pitching an Independent candidate would not have made sense.

"People were of the view from day one that Arvind Kejriwal is creation of the Congress party and AAP is "B" team of it and this is second time when it has been proved".

A bureaucrat-turned-politician, Kumar said that the forthcoming presidential election was not just the contest between two individuals but a clash of two different ideologies. Ram Nath Kovind has been fielded by the ruling BJP and its allies.

An AAP leader, who did not want to be named, said the party was "fine" with keeping a distance from the Congress.

Phoolka, who is a senior Supreme Court lawyer, had recently resigned from his post as the leader of opposition in the Punjab Assembly to continue to appear in courts for the riot victims.

His decision of not voting for Kumar was announced after the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) asked him why his party was supporting the Congress' presidential candidate.

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